- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Data Quality and Management
- Medical Coding and Health Information
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Global Health and Surgery
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Australian Catholic University
2022-2024
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
2011
Austin Health
2010
University College London
2010
Central Queensland University
1998-2007
National Postdoctoral Association
2006
Decision Sciences (United States)
1998
Monash University
1998
In the field of open electronic health records (EHRs), openEHR as an archetype-based approach is being increasingly recognised. It objective this paper to shortly describe approach, and analyse how archetypes impact on professionals semantic interoperability.Analysis current approaches EHR systems, terminology standards developments. addition literature reviews, we organised face-to-face additional telephone interviews tele-conferences with members relevant organisations committees.The...
While health informatics recommendations on competencies and education serve as highly desirable corridors for designing curricula courses, they cannot show how the content should be situated in a specific local context. Therefore, global perspectives need to reconciled common framework.The primary aim of this study is therefore empirically define validate framework globally accepted core competency areas enrich with exemplar information derived from educational settings.To end, (i) survey...
India's failure to develop a unified health information and monitoring system at the national level indicates need systems grassroots which can provide meaningful field workers communities. The planning administration of services requires systems. 7 sources that presently exist in India (Decennial Population Census, Civil Registration system, Sample Survey Causes Death, National Survey, Family Welfare Statistics, Management Information Evaluation Systems) have traditionally collected poor...
To conduct a basic sustainability analysis of health systems, and explore models for conceptualising creating sustainable organizations, based upon the experiences environmental sciences organisational theory. role information technologies in assisting organizations become enterprises.A review recent literature into systems an extension to specific case healthcare.Many if not all around globe face dual challenges increasing demands diminishing resources, which are ultimately unsustainable....
Objective: The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on revising the existing international recommendations in health informatics /medical education.These should help to establish courses, course tracks or even complete programs this field, further develop educational activities various nations and support initiatives concerning education biomedical (BMHI), particularly educating BMHI specialists sharing of courseware.Method: An IMIA task force, nominated 2006, worked...
To ascertain health professionals' perceptions of informatics skills required in their roles.A paper-based survey with a stratified random sample Australian professionals and web-based open to all were conducted.A questionnaire on the perceived degree competency for total 69 specific five skill categories based International Medical Informatics Association's (IMIA) set recommendations education IMIA's scientific map.462 responded questionnaire, 167 respondents Internet questionnaire....
Standardised nursing terminologies (SNTs) support the visibility of work and documentation, enabling data sharing comparison. An online survey assessed knowledge use SNTs revealed barriers enablers to their by Australian nurses. Just over half respondents were familiar with before survey, a quarter reported reasonable understanding SNTs, just under previous SNT, less than 14% indicated current SNT in workplace. Perceived benefits identified included reduction variation ability evaluate...
Health is a knowledge industry, based on data collected to support care, service planning, financing and advancement. Increasingly there need collect, retrieve use health record information in an electronic format provide greater flexibility, as this enables retrieval display of multiple locations formats irrespective where the were collected. Electronically maintained records require structure consistency achieve this. The held generated real time clinical systems also has potential reduce...